[2][3] She served a two-year term to oversee the NUS's three-year plan to financially overhaul its organisation following a £3 million shortfall in 2018.
[1][2] She is also a trustee of Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK),[4] an educational charity formed in response to the climate emergency and ecological crisis.
[9] Kennedy previously served as Advocacy and Campaigns Officer at Plan International during a sabbatical year from her undergraduate studies, and was a 2017–2019 trustee to the British Youth Council.
[11][12] Kennedy is a member of the UK committee of the global Youth for Change organisation, which campaigns to end gender-based violence and FGM.
[7][8] She is an alumna of the TuWezeshe Akina Dada Fellowship, a young women's leadership programme run by the charity FORWARD.